Sentences with phrase «humans first set»

It was only 3000 years ago that humans first set foot on Fiji and other isolated islands of the Pacific, having sailed across thousands of kilometers of ocean.
To say that humans first set foot in Australia exactly 65,000 years ago may be «a somewhat optimistic interpretation of the data,» Hiscock says.

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There's at least one relatively recent example the entrepreneurial set can cite: In the late 1980s the federal government said that mapping the first human genome was going to take 15 years and cost $ 3 billion.
A first impression sets the stage for how people view you in the future, and there's nothing you can do to change that: This is a direct byproduct of the way the human brain stores information.
Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations «Protect, Respect and Remedy» Framework establishes the first global set of business and human rights guidelHuman Rights: Implementing the United Nations «Protect, Respect and Remedy» Framework establishes the first global set of business and human rights guidelhuman rights guidelines.
Regarding human rights, «religious investors are newly asking for an end to fees levied on migrant tobacco workers — although the voting outlook is uncertain — while three proposals on a set of fair employment principles for Israel - Palestine will go to votes for the first time.»
First, he would have to have existed, then be reborn as a human, then killed as a human to pay some ransom price he set on our heads for the sin of eating his fruit from the tree he happened to plant right next to the hungry humans he just made.
The original document explained that to craft incipient human life precisely in order then to disaggregate it for materials crosses a moral boundary set when the first in vitro experiments took place.
In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.
Even so, Hartshorne clearly has his own contribution to make toward solving even this first set of problems; and if his own theory of human experience is hardly as fully developed as certain others, its basic axioms are arguably more adequate because better founded in experience itself.
When these failed, before beginning the battle they drew up a set of rules of warfare - perhaps the first «London Conference» in the history of the human race.
We shall get our bearings by setting forth in this first chapter the two different ways in which Protestant thought today describes our human pilgrimage and defines the kind of hope which is possible for those who believe that God is, and that he has made himself known to us in Jesus Christ.
The first contradiction is that of the physical limits set by the natural environment and the second is that of the limits of human exploitation.
They have a set veiwpoint on the matters of spirituality & life and believe their way to be the only way; the only difference is, they possibly the first religion based totally on science & human logic with a negative stance on spiritualism.
This means, in the first place, that faculties need to concentrate on the theological grounding of all that they do, and provide an account of Christian claims that is reasonable and accessible to real human beings in real settings.
For the first time in history, governments accepted a set of human rights standards for the entire world.
The Holy Father set in motion these past two years of contention and, one hopes, constructive dialogue in the Church because he knows that marriage and the family are in deep trouble throughout the world, just as he knows that marriage, rightly understood, and the family, rightly understood, are the basic building blocks of a humane society: the family is the first school of freedom, because it is there that we first learn that freedom is not mere willfulness; marriage, for its part, is the lifelong school in which we learn the full, challenging meaning of the law of self - giving built into the human heart.
He does so in the first human speech set down in the Bible, a rapturous little poem of naming:
Set in 1959, the narrator reflects back on the events from the present, highlighting the novelty of the encounter in the film's opening line: «I was twelve going on thirteen the first time I saw a dead human being.»
The first section, 1 - 11, intends to set the particular story of Israel against the background of all creation and in the midst of universal human existence.
Neil Armstrong, who took one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind as the first human to set foot on the moon, passed away today at the...
... [from] the address Pope Benedict gave [the Roman curia] at Christmas two years ago... «As the first step of evangelisation... we must seek that human beings do not set aside the question of God,...».
It took this shape: ten students and a faculty member meet two hours a week through the first year of seminary, with the students placed in supervised settings where they experience human need, whether it be aging and death, emergency rooms, or poverty.
First, since human society always employs violence to enforce some set of standards, Christians» whom Christ called to live out a radically different form of community, one in which it is the crucified rather than his judges who is vindicated as God's Word» should simply take up the burden of civic order and abandon the Gospel where prudentially necessary because, you know, someone absolutely has to kill heretics, and so we should make sure the right heretics get killed.
The humanist movement in its turn gave him a confidence in human culture, a love of the classics and a connatural feeling for language, for beauty in the form of words, and for words in their natural setting of everyday language that eventually flowered in the German Bible, a whole language coming both to birth and to a first apotheosis — a miracle of the sixteenth century to set beside the achievement of Shakespeare in England at the end of the century.
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Human milk banking started informally almost a hundred years ago, however the first human milk bank was set up in the United States in mid 1Human milk banking started informally almost a hundred years ago, however the first human milk bank was set up in the United States in mid 1human milk bank was set up in the United States in mid 1980s.
India's first human milk bank was set up in Mumbai in 1989.
The UK is set to become on of the first countries to commit to promoting the human rights of people with disabilities.
Ministers are set for a showdown with Tory rebels over the immigration bill after it was confirmed a crucial amendment backed by restive backbenchers will be debated in the Commons.The amendment, supported by dozens of Tory MPs, would give ministers rather than judges the final say over whether deportation would breach the human rights of foreign criminals.Commons Speaker John Bercow selected the amendment tabled by Esher and Walton MP Dominic Raab in the first group for debate, meaning there will be time for a vote.
1118 - FCO - For first time in 64 year history the Commonwealth will have a formal Charter setting out core values: democracy; human rights; peace and security; tolerance, respect and understanding; freedom of expression; separation of powers; rule of law; good governance; sustainable development; environmental protection; access to health, education, food and shelter; gender equality; and the importance of young people and civil society.
He said since the commencement of the EFCC investigations, the former first lady had, through the same set of lawyers, filed a fundamental human rights enforcement suit marked FHC / ABJ / CS / 586/2017, demanding N2bn against the EFCC for an alleged violation of her right.
If the cards break favorably, he'll probably be hailed as the visionary administrator who roused space travel from its somnolent state and laid the groundwork for humans setting foot, for the first time, on another planet.
It was the step heard round the world: On July 20, 1969, at 10:56 p.m. (EDT), Apollo astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first human being to set foot on the moon.
In a series of experiments, the researchers first identified a set of 19 transcription factors that were expressed at significantly greater levels in cultured human glioblastoma stem cells capable of tumor propagation than in differentiated tumor cells.
If the plan comes to fruition, the first astronauts to step out of a Golden Spike lander could be the first human beings to set foot on the moon since the final Apollo mission in 1972.
The «doctors» trial» was the first of the war crimes trials; one of its outcomes was the famous Nuremberg Code, a set of ethical guidelines for human experimentation.
When humans set foot once again on the moon — or for the first time on Mars — what they find will surely be enriched by all that our robotic messengers have already told us.
«First, we had to figure out much better methods to find human counterparts of yeast genes, and then we had to arrange the humanized set of genes in a meaningful way,» explained Peng, now Assistant Professor of Computer Sciences at University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign.
The processors — modeled after the brain's networks of neurons — are first trained by humans on actual translations and then let loose on new sets of data.
THE world's first cloned human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) are here, but they can't yet be used to grow tissues for transplant because they have an extra set of chromosomes.
It is the first animal to hit a milestone, set nearly 20 years ago by the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, for determining whether a xenotransplantation approach is safe enough to try in humans, Brenner notes.
On 14 September 2015, at 9:50:45 universal time, humans detected for the first time a gravitational wave — a rippling, infinitesimal stretching of spacetime itself set off when two black holes spiraled into each other.
These images provide the first 3D ultrastructural details on HIV infection and virus production in a setting that closely resembles the gut of human patients.
A growing body of research in the last decade has looked at what makes human psychology special, and scientists have said that the basic social communication skills that begin to develop around 9 months are what first seem to set humans apart from other species, said MacLean, assistant professor in the School of Anthropology in the UA College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Chromosomes come in two matching sets, one from each parent, but the first human genome sequences published in 2001 (one by Venter, the other by federally funded researchers) were pastiches of both sets from several different individuals.
What's it like to be one of the first humans to set eyes on a new alien world?
That produces a complete set of human chromosomes and leads to the first division of the cell.
«After growing steadily, particularly in the last four decades, aquaculture is for the first time set to contribute half of the fish consumed by the human population worldwide,» said Ichiro Nomura, assistant director general of FAO's fisheries and aquaculture department.
Although Arabidopsis's five chromosomes are a fraction of the human set, the completed sequence will represent another scientific milestone as the first detailed genetic record of a plant.
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